Question: How to communicate with a service? about node-windows HOT 3 CLOSED

The service wrapper doesn't have a means of communicating in real time since most changes require a restart in order for Windows to recognize the change. Are you trying to reload the XML configuration file that runs the service? The only way to accomplish this is to modify the configuration file and restart the service. This could be done by watching the config file for changes and restarting the service upon save of the config file.

If you're talking about communicating with your own file (as opposed to the wrapper), I'd suggest writing a lightweight socket server into your app. You could then communicate with it from any other node app, telnet, or anything else that can connect to the socket.

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Wow, that was a quick reply! Thanks. I was talking about communicating with my own file instead of the wrapper. I was thinking about using sockets, too. Thanks again, and thanks for node-windows. :)

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You're welcome.

FWIW - node-windows is actually just a small subset of the upcoming platform I've been working on (NGN). The platform actually has this kind of inter-process communication built in. I'm not sure when the release will be, but I can say that writing a robust socket server for a process was more time consuming than I originally anticipated. Depending on how critical your app is and how much time you have, another quick option would be to add a lightweight web server to respond to changes.

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